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Show What Is a Profitable Cow? A cow must produce about 4.000 pounds of milk and 160 pounds of butter fat to pay for her feed and labor. la-bor. This is the dead line: Five thousand pounds milk, $10 profit; 8,-000 8,-000 pounds milk, $40 profit four times as much. Ten cows averaging 8,000 pounds of milk are as profitable as 40 cows producing' 5,000 pounds. The cost of keep increases but $35 per cow, from 2,000 to 10,000 pounds of milk given, yet the income increases in-creases $115, or over three times as rapidly. |